Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) last month jumped into the network-attached storage (NAS) market with StorNext, the first in an antici pated family of NAS appliances expected from the tape library vendor

StorageTek (STK) and Great Hill Partners (a Boston-based investment firm) recently announced the formation of ManagedStorage International, which will offer storage services such as storage on demand, server and PC backup, and content management

In a move that industry analysts describe as a strategic counter-thrust against archrival EMC, IBM last month announced plans to invest $400 million in open-systems storage area network (SAN) product development and services

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has released open source code for the Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager, which will eventually be used to manage all network objects, including storage devices, servers, clusters, and applications

Ever-increasing storage needs, fueled by data-intensive applications and a robust e-commerce economy, will continue to pace the growth of the storage utility market, according to a number of research firms

Lab Review

Disk subsystems range from single disk drives to large installations of disk arrays. They can be directly attached to individual computer systems or configured as larger shared-access storage area networks (SANs)

Opinion

The future roles of Fibre Channel, SCSI, and InfiniBand are being hotly debated. In an attempt to douse the fires, we asked contributing writers Elizabeth Ferrarini and Lee Steele to interview vendor representatives and one industry analyst

Editorial

No publication has been more evangelical in its support for storage area networks (SANs) than this one, but what can be perceived as hype has apparently led to unrealistic expectations regarding the rate of end-user SAN adoption